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			<h1>PayPal is such a pain to work with</h1>
			<p>Day 00016: Monday, 2015 March 23</p>
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	The people manning the PayPal Twitter account showed me how to contact PayPal through their website.
	The stupid part is, even once you navigate the small maze to reach the contact form, you are required to choose a topic with which you need support and there is no &quot;other&quot; option listed.
	If I chose the option relating to credit card support, the only available subtopics to choose from involve adding a card to tour account.
	As I don&apos;t have an account and am not trying to add a card to an account, merely pay with a card, I could not even choose the most relevant topic because choosing a subtopic is mandatory.
	I ended up having to file it as a general complaint.
	When choosing to file it as a complaint, the Web form recommends that you first contact support to try to get things sorted out.
	However, the complaint form was the only way I could find to reach support, aside from choosing an irrelevant topic to ask for support with.
	This form says PayPal will get back to me within 48 hours, but we&apos;ll see.
	I haven&apos;t had good luck with companies contacting me back lately.
	Speaking of which, GitHub still has not gotten back to me.
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	While I was picking up food at the store today, I dropped by the gift card section in hopes of picking up a reloadable PayPal gift card.
	The hope was that maybe with the gift card, PayPal would allow me to make payments, as PayPal is rejecting my credit card, despite having taken that same credit card recently.
	However, my local market didn&apos;t have PayPal gift cards.
	Perhaps I&apos;ll try another store later.
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